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1.9KRetailRetail Holiday Hiring Reflects Focus On eCommerce, Speed
With a greater emphasis on speed and online shopping, holiday hiring needs have changed amid shifting consumer preferences. Large retailers are set...
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1.5KWhat's HotAmazon Beefs Up Seasonal Warehouse Employees Ahead Of Holiday Demand
Amazon has announced that it’s going to hire 200,000 temp workers for the holiday season, according to Bloomberg. The workers will handle...
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1.6KRetailWalmart Taps Kathryn McLay To Lead Sam’s Club
Walmart-owned Sam’s Club has appointed Kathryn McLay to serve as president and chief executive officer, replacing John Furner, who this month succeeded...
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2.7KPersonnelGoogle Hires First Chief Health Officer
As the tech giant aggressively pursues the health market, Google has hired former Obama administration health official Karen DeSalvo as its first chief health...
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1.9KRegulationFed Concerned Trade War Could Trigger Recession
Federal Reserve officials are worried that slowing global growth, exacerbated by the U.S.-China trade war, could sap domestic hiring and economic activity,...
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2.3KB2B PaymentsSMBs Enter 2019’s Final Quarter With Plate Full Of Concerns
The year’s final quarter is upon us, marking an opportunity to look back at Q3 and obtain a reading of small businesses’...
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3.0KRetailIKEA To Take On Amazon With Expanded Smart Home Offerings
IKEA is making big moves into the smart home ecosphere with its biggest investment in decades. The company wants to become a...
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4.9KPersonnelBlueVine Hires PayPal Exec As CCO
Silicon Valley FinTech startup BlueVine has named Brad Brodigan as chief commercial officer to oversee sales and other income-producing functions, the company...
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2.3KEconomyAmid Trade War, US Job Growth Misses Estimates
The trade war, indirectly, seems to have had an impact on hiring. The latest data from the Labor Department show that in...
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2.6KInvestmentsCarlyle Group Makes Large Investment In AI Hiring Firm HireVue
Large investment and equity firm Carlyle Group has taken a majority stake in an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring firm called HireVue, according...
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3.8KPersonnelCred Crypto Lender Names PayPal Veteran As CFO
Cred, a global crypto-backed lending and borrowing platform, has announced the addition of two executive team members. Joe Podulka, a 10-year veteran...
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3.9KPersonnelWalmart Adds Two Global Governance Leaders To Support Financial Services
To help advise its financial services business as one global team, Walmart has added two new global governance leaders. Emma Waddell will...
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4.6KRegulationCitigroup Fined $1.25M For Background Check Infractions
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Citigroup’s global markets business $1.25 million for not performing background checks on thousands of...
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4.3KeCommerceOpendoor Trims Employees And Perks
Opendoor, the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, “is reshuffling staff and scaling back on a time-honored...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsCash Flow Worries Limit SMB Hiring
Some of the world’s largest conglomerates are raising concerns about an impending economic recession in the U.S., supply chain disruptions stemming from...
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2.4KFacebookFacebook Recruits Blockchain Program Manager
Facebook is reportedly seeking “to hire a finance program manager in blockchain,” according to a new job posting. The move comes amid the...
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1.4KSMBsSmall Business Optimism Rises To Historic Highs
New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 points to 105 in May, surpassing pre-shutdown levels. According to the National Federation...
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3.0KPersonnelMastercard Names New President Of Canadian Operations
Mastercard announced on Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president of the company’s Canadian operations. In a press release,...
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3.2KPersonnelWalmart Nabs Ex-Google Exec As CTO, CDO
Walmart has hired Suresh Kumar as its new chief technology officer and chief development officer, according to a report. Kumar will report...
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2.2KCFPBCFPB Announces New Hires
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced additions to its senior leadership and executive teams via an emailed press release. One...
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1.9KSMBsSMBs Struggle To Cope With New Trade Tariffs
Small businesses have sent out a warning to the Trump administration over new tariffs being levied on Chinese goods. The White House...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsHiring Pains, Revenue Optimism Hit Small Business Week
In honor of Small Business (SMB) Week, which kicks off in the U.S. on Monday (May 6), banks and financial service providers...
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3.0KWalmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Glimpsing The Future Of Automation And One-Day Delivery
This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the...
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2.3KInvestmentsPlaid Is Looking To Hire In Europe
Plaid, the FinTech platform provider that recently raised $250 million in venture funding, is gearing up to expand into Europe. According to...
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2.5KAmazonAmazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year
Amazon has announced that it’s looking to fill jobs for its new headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to help build up the...
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3.9KDeliveryPostmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area
Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly...
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4.0KEconomyHiring Boom Sees 196K New Jobs In US
Following a slowdown in February, hiring in the United States rebounded in March, when non-farm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 196,000...
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4.2KAmazonEx-GM EVP Finds A New Home At Amazon
Amazon has hired General Motors‘ (GMs’) executive vice president of global manufacturing. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...
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4.0KEarningsDampening Earnings Outlook Signals US Corporate Recession?
A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. You may be, of course, familiar with the idea of an...
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4.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ripple Mulls XRP Recruiting Bonuses; Facebook Hires Talent From Blockchain Startups
Ripple reportedly offered bonuses via its digital currency during its recruiting process, according to CoinDesk. One unnamed source was said to have...
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5.0KPersonnelFacebook Buys Chainspace Team For Blockchain Push
Facebook is making a big push into blockchain technology with some new hires, according to reports. The company recently hired four people...
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4.4KRetailNeiman Marcus Names Two Execs As It Builds Luxury Platform
Neiman Marcus Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 5) the appointment of two executives to lead its customer and store strategies. In a press release,...
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4.3KSMBsSMBs Reign In Spending, Hiring
Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how...
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4.4KArtificial IntelligenceReport: Corporate AI Usage Balloons 270 Pct In Four-Year Span
A new report has revealed that the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in companies grew 270 percent in the past four years....
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5.7KB2B PaymentsBanco Santander Pulls Plug On New CEO
Banco Santander announced this week that plans to hire a new chief executive officer have been cancelled. The financial institution issued a...
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3.1KAmazonAmazon HQ2 Posts First Jobs
Amazon posted two job openings mentioning its HQ2 office in New York City. Both positions — posted within the last few days — are for...
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7.9KAuthenticationWhy Last-Mile Logistics Needs Last-Mile Authentication
For consumers, working with various institutions — such as banks, government agencies and medical systems — often means remembering just as many account passwords for...
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6.6KPersonnelVisa Taps Square’s Mary Kay Bowman To Lead Seller Solutions
To head up Visa’s strategy for acceptance products and solutions, Mary Kay Bowman is coming to the firm as its new head...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsSmall Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants
Behind many shifting trends in small business (SMB) financial services — the rise of FinTech service providers, the emergence of artificial intelligence...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsSMBs Cautious In Volatile US Economy
An unstable stock market has led many small businesses (SMBs) to cut costs and change their hiring plans for the New Year....
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5.2KPersonnelSquare Talks Temp Payroll
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely...
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6.6KPersonnelFacebook Eyes Engineers, Researchers For Blockchain Team
Social media giant Facebook is looking to grow its blockchain team, according to a report. The company posted on its careers page...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsTalent Crunch Intensifies For Small Businesses, Bank Of America Finds
The year 2018 was a record year for small business (SMB) optimism in the U.S., driven by economic strength, government policy and continued...
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4.0KPersonnelAirbnb Hires Veteran Amazon Executive As CFO
Airbnb, preparing for an expected initial public offering next year, announced Monday (Nov. 26) that Amazon executive Dave Stephenson is coming onboard...
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4.2KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Brussel’s NXMH Acquires Bitstamp Exchange; Ripple Hires Ex-Google Product Specialist
MediXserve is working with the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in an effort to make the first blockchain research and...
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4.2KRetailThe Retail Holiday Hiring Headache
By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...
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2.7KB2B PaymentsCBIZ Reports Fall In SMB Hiring For September
New data from CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI) reported a month-over-month decrease in hiring of 2.45 percent in September, which follows...
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3.8KRetailHow US Retailers Are Attracting Seasonal Workers Ahead Of The Holidays
Retailers are looking for hundreds of thousands of retail workers ahead of what is expected to be a busy holiday season: Target,...
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6.3KRetailRetail Pulse: Rent The Runway Opens San Francisco Store; Crate & Barrel Plans Restaurant
To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, they are also turning to...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsADP Stats Show Unemployment Squeezing Entrepreneurs
U.S. businesses are optimistic, but that doesn’t mean entrepreneurs aren’t facing increasingly challenging hurdles. The latest data from ADP and other analysts...
